"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

Thoreau, Henry David | Critics and Criticism | 1 bookmarks

"Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them."

Guizot, Madame | Responsibility | 1 bookmarks

"Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon | Friends and Friendship | 3 bookmarks

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."

Bronte, Charlotte | Feelings | 4 bookmarks

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

Diderot, Denis | Truth | 1 bookmarks

"CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future."

Unknown, Source | Cynics and Cynicism | 2 bookmarks

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

Locke, John | Parents and Parenting | 2 bookmarks

"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques | Repentance | 2 bookmarks

"Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end."

Talmud, The | Sin | 4 bookmarks

"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."

Hugo, Victor | Argument | 1 bookmarks